The new tab screen in Firefox has annoying messages popping up at the bottom and this may not be to everyone’s taste. But this can be changed very easily. Just create a user.js in your Firefox profile directory and put this in it. This will give you a completely blank new tab screen. user.js1 2 … Read more
To make a PDF file of a manual page on Linux, this involves a very simple command. Make a Postscript file from a manual page on Linux. jason@jason-desktop:~$ man -t 3 printf > printf.psjason@jason-desktop:~$ man -t 3 printf > printf.ps Then convert the Postscript file to a PDF easily. jason@jason-desktop:~$ ps2pdf printf.psjason@jason-desktop:~$ ps2pdf printf.ps This … Read more
The NASA Voyager probe that is now traveling out of the Solar System has its own Twitter page! See it here: NASA Voyager. This probe has withstood amazing levels of radiation and is still transmitting precious information back to NASA. On the sixth of September the 35th anniversary of the launching of the Voyager probe … Read more
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. This is the first Hypertext page ever created; the page that was the first to use hyperlinks and gave us a connected and more informed future. This is a page using some very old HTML 1.0 code with<DD> tags that I have not seen for a very long time. They seem to have gone … Read more
The Pagelines Framework theme is an outstanding theme for the WordPress blogging software, and adding Adsense ad units is a good way to monetise your website. If you edit the wp-content/themes/pagelines/sections/content/section.php you may add an Adsense ad unit very easily. There are plugins for WordPress that allow you to add Adsense ads to your blog, … Read more
I have removed the evil nofollow tag from my website allowing my visitors who type comments to actually gain from Search Engine crawling. I wish I had done this sooner, the nofollow tag is evil, you spend all that time commenting on blogs and you do not gain that much page ranking. It is time … Read more